> > Did test_new contain ignored files? No. I put the entire transcript in the first email. I did not tell git to ignore anything and there were no .git directories in the test folder. > In this case, when you checkout the > branch that does not have test_new, only the tracked files are removed; > the ignored (i.e untracked) files remain. Therefore, after the checkout > you still have a test_new directory. > As far as I can tell all the files are tracked after I do a commit. I can understand why it put the original test directory back when I changed to the master branch but I don't understand why it's missing a subdirectory. I don't think the test_new directory should be in the master branch at all but I guess I can kind of sort of see why git might not remove it. What I can't understand at all is why it's missing subdirectories. I hate to say this but I tried the exact same thing with mercurial in the last half hour and it did exactly what I thought it should do. The master had the test directory but not the test_new and the branch had the test_new directory but not the test. No subdirectories were missing out of either one. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html